Warm invitation to St Michael's in Heliopolis

You are warmly invited to worship with our new English
congregation of St Michael's Anglican Church in Heliopolis. Here our website! We celebrate each Friday at 11 am. For more programs, see our website.
In our brochure 'Warm Invitation' >click here for the pdf< you find more about who we are and what we do.

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit

What does Jesus mean when he speaks of the 'blasphemy of the Holy Spirit', in Mark 3:20-35?

There are so many guilt-ridden people asking for an explanation of this verse; people who are predisposed to feeling guilty, either because of their personality type or because they have been pressed down by adversity. or because they have a distorted view of God.

As soon as they come across this passage, they are convinced that they have somehow blas- phemed against the Holy Spirit, even though they haven’t the faintest notion of what exactly ‘blaspheming against the Holy Spirit’ means and even though they cannot recollect ever having done whatever it is that they cannot explain anyway.

Why we need icons in Church

St John of Damascus wrote three treatises on the usage of icons in church. During the theological and political turmoil related to iconoclasm, St John used the best arguments why the Church should have icons of Jesus, Mary, the saints and the angels. he convinced me. Here a paper I finished on 8 November 2013. >> Download the pdf of this article on icons in Church

Seven temples of God

I hope to write a series of articles on the Seven Temples of God mentioned in the Bible. The completion may take a while - I have enough to do - but I will put the draft articles here one by one.

School for Sudanese Kids in Cairo

In June 2015 we are to open a school for about 200 sudanese kids. Our church in Cairo has about a 1000 sudanese members, of which half is under 16. There are very few options for education for these refugees in Egypt, so we decided to 'go it alone'.

Surat al-Fatiha

Under 'studies' I have placed some self-study I am doing in the Qur'an - just a feeble beginning. Have a look and let me know my mistakes ;-)

Coptic Studies

Under the Studies button, you can find some lectures I have recently (February- March 2008) held in our church here in Maadi (Egypt). I will probably continue to work on them as I happen to be a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to historical truth and the shape of documents. Oh, if only I had been a native English speaker. I hope you enjoy these and the other papers of mine that will slowly appear here.